Cause and Effect
May 30th, 2007 at 7:16 am by Susie
This is exactly why we needed to stop the Alito and Roberts nominations, and why we could have done it. Instead of focusing on their theoretical anti-abortion votes, we should have fought them on the basis of their long-time, all too concrete corporatist records.
And now, this is what we have:
WASHINGTON, May 29 — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for many workers to sue their employers for discrimination in pay, insisting in a 5-to-4 decision on a tight time frame to file such cases. The dissenters said the ruling ignored workplace realities.
The decision came in a case involving a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., the only woman among 16 men at the same management level, who was paid less than any of her colleagues, including those with less seniority. She learned that fact late in a career of nearly 20 years — too late, according to the Supreme Court’s majority.
The court held on Tuesday that employees may not bring suit under the principal federal anti-discrimination law unless they have filed a formal complaint with a federal agency within 180 days after their pay was set. The timeline applies, according to the decision, even if the effects of the initial discriminatory act were not immediately apparent to the worker and even if they continue to the present day.
EVERYTHING Bush and his buddies do is in support of the corporate interests.
Roberts and Alito both have long records of affirming the rights of a business over the interests of the individual.
All the abortion baloney has been a smokescreen for what republican aristocrats really want, a permanent aristocracy.
Yes, but the democrats kept their powder dry!
And it is important to have dry powder, or your giant aristocrat wig starts to look ratty.
Lord knows we don’t want our aristocrats, whether they’re the evil Dick Cheney type, or the kindly [I think I just vomited in my mouth] Harry Reid type, to go without a fully powdered wig.
Can we hang them now?